| TRACY | Star of film version of The Old Man and the Sea Spencer |
| LIONS | Of what was the Old Man dreaming, in the 9 4 of The Old Man and the Sea? (5) |
| FRANKIEANDANET | New version of The Old Man and the Sea starring a beach-movie idol? |
| FRANKIEANDENET | New version of The Old Man and the Sea starring a beach-movie idol? |
| ISLAFISHER | "She should star in a movie adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea!" |
| HEMINGWAY | May whinge about the author of The Old Man And The Sea (9) |
| PAPAHEMINGWAY | Sobriquet for the author of "The Old Man and the Sea" |
| ERNEST | Author of The Old Man and the Sea, ... Hemingway (6) |
| ERNESTHEMINGWAY | Author of The Old Man and the Sea (6,9) |
| HURT | Actor who was the voice of Aragorn in the original 1978 film version of The Lord of the Rings (4) |
| SCOFIELD | Actor in A Man for All Seasons, the 1996 Arthur Miller film version of The Crucible and an adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's Why the Whales Came (8) |
| PETRUCHIO | "By William Shakespeare with additional dialogue by Sam Taylor" proclaimed the credits for the film version of The Taming Of The Shrew in which Elizabeth Taylor was Katharina and Richard Burton played |
| DIMITRI | Composer who won Best Original Score Oscars for High Noon, The High and the Mighty and The Old Man and the Sea (7,7) |
| TIOMKIN | Composer who won Best Original Score Oscars for High Noon, The High and the Mighty and The Old Man and the Sea (7,7) |
| TARGUM | Black and sticky according to this version of the Old Testament! (6) |
| SEA | ...author of The Old Man and the ___ (3) |
| REHASH | A new version of the old forms has her reeling (6) |
| SACERDOTAL | Priestly version of the old car seat (10) |
| RUTHLESS | As unsympathetic as an incomplete version of the Old Testament! (8) |
| PRINCECHARLES | Author of The Old Man of Lochnagar, a children's book published in 1980 (6,7) |
